. Rural Denmark and its lessons. ined that I wouldnot leave the country until I had personally interviewedsome of these State small-holders ; had seen their landand heard their stories from their own lips. Here Imay add that the men I visited on this particularjourney, as Mr. Mortensen assured me in answer to myspecific questions, were neither the worst nor the bestof the State small-holders in that part of were, he said, a fair sample, selected for themost part because their holdings lay near the roadand were therefore easy of access. The first holder whom I saw, a hard, sturdy-l
. Rural Denmark and its lessons. ined that I wouldnot leave the country until I had personally interviewedsome of these State small-holders ; had seen their landand heard their stories from their own lips. Here Imay add that the men I visited on this particularjourney, as Mr. Mortensen assured me in answer to myspecific questions, were neither the worst nor the bestof the State small-holders in that part of were, he said, a fair sample, selected for themost part because their holdings lay near the roadand were therefore easy of access. The first holder whom I saw, a hard, sturdy-lookingman of about fifty, was Mr. Ole Larsen of Sallov, byGadstrup, who owns five tondeland, that is about sixacres and a half, which he bought in 1905 with the aidof a State loan of 4000 kroner (or ^221, 13s. 4d.), at acost of 500 kroner (or about ^27, 10s.) per tondeland,say £2$ the acre. He informed me that when heentered on the holding he possessed a capital of 1100kroner (about ^61), which he had saved as an agri- ^>xvv. Mr. Ole Larsens State Small-holding
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